Psychological Anime

The elderly at the nursing home have their heads shaved. The protagonist who works there sees them but can't read their expressions. However, from one instance, he finds himself looking closely at their faces. (Source: Official Site)

There is a stone pillar that continues long and long. Climbers are climbing it. Each climber keeps climbing the stone pillar spending time. They are the symbols of accumulation. (Source: Tokyo University of the Arts)

A female killer, who desires to have a child and a cold-blooded male killer. They go to an apartment at night to assassinate a drug addict. Unfortunately, the drug addict's wife is there on the scene. The female killer has no choice but kills the wife too. Then she finds something underneath the woman's body - it's a baby. (Source: IMDB)

The noise of the badly projected cathode ray tube image cleared up and a news program called "Ficfyon 7" appeared on the monitor. Professor Kim Wilson, an expert on the mysterious genre of "Ficfyon" was introduced as a guest, and the host asked him questions about the current state of "Ficfyon." The professor's answer was not in words, but a mysterious gesture. With the presenter's astonished expression, the images on the monitor split and repeat like a matryoshka. Eventually, the program ends as if nothing had happened, but the strange loop continues afterwards... (Source: CaRTe bLaNChe)

In an unknown time when everything is colorless, the world pale and desolate, everybody is born with pale white skin. There is absolutely no sign of color in this world at all. However, one boy is born with yellowish skin. Everybody treats him like some sort of monster, and the boy lives in isolation, in the woods with his mother. The year he turns 16, the boy’s depressed mother, unable to bear the seclusion, commits suicide. The boy blames himself for her death and dreams of becoming a normal pale-skinned person. (Source: koreanfilm.or.kr)

This story is about a place long ago, before birth and before death, that everyone knows and no one knows. (Source: Geidai Animation)

I often fall into the fantasy upon her back. What kind of person is she? What does she like? What world view does she hold? From the occasional detailed observations of her daily life, I have inferred many unexplainable clues... After a series of fantastic imagination, I suddenly realized that the girl who has been dialoging with me in my mind is just my own wishful thinking. Therefore, on the day of the reunion, I decided to take this step... (Source: YouTube)

Mayumi is a spoiled girl whose parents buy her everything she wants. She names her name "Mayumi" to everything she receives, and her room is gradually filled with many Mayumis. Mayumi herself gets swallowed by the characters of her name. (Source: Geidai Animation)

The film covered a residential area with a superb view of both ocean and mountain. From that day, this town became dark as pitch. Hidden in this darkness were lights in the town, my way home, my mother, and my expected baby in my belly. This animation depicts the truth hiding behind the facts. (Source: Geidai Animation)

She was abused by her father during childhood. Since he left, the pain and anger had begun to fade. One day, unexpectedly, she was struck by a revelation about her father's life that cast her feelings about him into confusion. (Source: IMDb)

A music video for the song Panspermia by Kami-sama, Boku wa Kizuite Shimatta.

The animation is based on a self-experience. It is about the injury of rigid religious upbringing to a teenager who discovers the strange and terrifying reality behind fundamentalism. Warped into an ultra-religious environment from a young age, his surroundings force him to adhere to a rigid and sometimes irrational world-view. He eventually succumbs to the madness, and lives consumed by guilt while devouring every crumb of false hope thrown at him from his religious community. One day he gathers the courage to leave his faith behind, and sees that human existence is actually a more nuanced experience than the black and white reality in which he grew up in. By using metaphors of signs and symbols, the animation highlights and describes the mental illness caused by the conservative church on the lead character and illustrates how the character makes his way out from his dire situation. (Source: IMDB)

Shun is forced into playing with four friends. But they are not friends, he hates them. The unbearable heat and heavy atmosphere deepen his depression. (Source: eventive)

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Animated music video for the song Shinya Haikai by Shannon feat. GUMI.

At night, a man holds out his own leash into the void. He has to explode in order to escape.

The film portrays the author's fear of how Hong Kong has changed and how she faces her emotions. It feels like the soul is broken into many pieces, but if we survive, depths of night will eventually pass. (Source: Goldenhorse)

Adam Wan, a young gay man who grew up in Hong Kong, fights for the rights of the LGBT and realises that the difficulties include the conflicts with his father. Frustrated, he begins to re-examine the society, his family and himself. (Source: IMDB)

She has an unspeakable secret but the memory is gradually fading. The little girl is no longer sure if it was a dream or reality.

Animated music video for "Melty."

A woman looks into her mind. Chasing her ideals on a tightrope. Every imperfect piece of her mind completes herself. (Source: IMDb)

Sitting at a low table, a man stares at the pot in front of him. His body, affected by the bubbles that finally emerge, drowns in a hallucination of being chased by a one-armed girl. (Source: Image Forum Festival)

The old granny playing peek-a-boo is gone. Instead, a stranger appears and draws closer to the child. Peek-a-boo involves exercising memory, and looking directly at your partner. (Source: Geidai Animation)

Behind the Schoolbag is a story about self-salvation. Having suffered from a miserable childhood, Shaun couldn't help but question his own value. Human relationship has always been Shaun's barrier, sometimes, he wishes he could stay alone, but in reality, Shaun has to re-enter the society. Staying in his own comfort zone, Shaun can do nothing but lock up his heart and distant himself from others. All the stress and pressure in modern life is driving people insane. We have to learn how to sooth our own emotions so as to survive. We can do nothing but meditate and reflect upon ourselves. We can observe the truth and the essence wisely and feel the presence of now and start living. (Source: Vimeo)

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Short film by Shunsaku Hayashi. In a continuous scenery, his physical movement stays in the same position. The speed of the continuity and his movement have accelerated and gradually cause a distortion. (Source: IMDB)